Radish - White Icicle

Raphanus sativus

HEIRLOOM -Svelte white roots grow 4-6" long with tasty tops. Try serving whole with salt for dipping. Mild flesh with crispy bite. Oh there's always room for radishes in the garden! A very easy-to-grow root crop popular around the world, try a making a quick glazed radish side dish from France or a pickled daikon from Japan. Coming in myriad shapes and colors, radishes make a flavorful addition to salads, stir frys, sautés, and braises. Nutrients: vitamin C, K, B6, folate, potassium, calcium, and magnesium

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size

Quantity

Average Seed / oz

Seed / 100' Row

Average Yield / 100' Row

Days to Harvest

2500

1 oz

40 lbs

30

Planting Season

Ideal Soil Temp

Sun

Frost Tolerance

All

45-80°F

Full Sun

Moderately Tolerant

Sowing Method

Seed Depth

Direct Seed Spacing

Seeds Per Packet

Direct Seed

1/2"

1/2"

165

Mature Spacing

Days to Sprout

Production Cycle

Seed Viability

2-3"

4-11

Annual

2 -5 years

Site Selection

Radishes are a moderately frost-tolerant vegetable that prefer full sun, but will tolerate partial shade. Plant in fertile, evenly moist soil that is free of rocks.

Cultivation

Spring radish varieties are small, fast growing (24-32 days), and become pungent and woody in the heat of summer. Direct seed spring radishes outdoors up to 6 weeks before the last frost date. For a continual harvest, sow in 1-2 week succession plantings until temperatures become hot. These radish varieties can be planted again in the fall when temperatures cool.

Winter radish varieties have larger roots and are slower to mature (60 days). Direct seed winter radishes outdoors so that they mature around the first fall frost.

Harvest

Spring radishes should be picked before they become large and woody (24-32 days). Winter radishes will be ready for harvest in approximately 60 days, depending on the variety.

Seed Saving

An insect pollinated annual, radish can be a challenge to keep pure because in many areas there are an abundance of wild radish that will cross readily with your cultivated varieties. Being a small plant, they are easy to cage for isolation, and being fast maturing, time isolation is a great choice as well. Seed pods will form after the flowers die back, and you should allow the pods to dry on the plants for as long as possible before gathering. Pods are thick and do not shatter easily. Winnow to separate chaff.